She is the fearless Tang wife in "The Sun Also Rises", the "cheating mother" Wang Meiling in "The Second Exposure", the ex-girlfriend of Lao Zhuo in "The First Half of My Life", and the awe-inspiring female writer Yao Hong in "Peace Hotel"... She is Convi. When it comes to these roles, I believe many people are impressed, but Kong Wei's name is not as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as the roles she played.
In the early days of his career, he starred in the film directed by Jiang Wen as the female lead, the first North Film student recruited by the Institute in the past 50 years, and was also rated as "Julia Roberts of the East" by many foreign media. But her path in the entertainment industry has not been as broad as many people expected, and Kong Wei has chosen to go to another fork———— do public welfare.
Some people say that Kong Wei is an actress who has been delayed by public welfare undertakings; some people say that Kong Wei chose to do public welfare only after he could not mix in the entertainment industry. In the past seventeen years, Kong Wei has heard too many people's admonitions and dissuasion, and even his mother, who has always been loving, has told her that it is a good thing to do public welfare, but do not delay her future, but Kong Wei still persevered.
In the face of Xinhuanet's lens, Kong Wei did not hide her love and urgency for acting, and she also made no secret of saying that in order to practice public welfare, she may not have made enough efforts as an actor. But she didn't regret it, she said, "Public welfare, for me more than a decade ago, may have been a passion, but for me now, it is a responsibility." 」
Because of a news from his hometown, he embarked on the road of public welfare
On November 19, 2012, Kong Wei still vividly remembers this day that completely changed the trajectory of her life.
That day, Kong Wei accidentally saw a news story about the death of left-behind children in Bijie, Guizhou. Kong Wei is a native of Guizhou, seeing such an incident in her hometown, Kong Wei, who was already a mother at that time, was deeply touched, and her first reaction at that time was to donate money to the local left-behind children.
The principal is a local, and he came here after graduating from college for nine years. However, what Kong Wei did not expect was that the headmaster was very determined to see them: you go, we don't need your money, and I don't want the children to develop the habit of reaching out to people and crying with people from an early age. Such a sentence touched Kong Wei quite a bit, "A rural teacher, with such a height, I admire." ”
The children in the school are all Buyi ethnic group, and they have received little standardized education since childhood, and many of them cannot even speak Mandarin. Kong Wei thought to himself, if you don't charge money, then let's donate some computers, but the children will not use it... The conditions in the countryside are harsh, the treatment is poor, the teaching staff is seriously lacking, and it is difficult for children to complete even the basic Language and Mathematics courses, not to mention the cultivation of music, art, physical education and other styles. It was at that moment that Kong Wei suddenly had an idea: You lack teachers, so let's help the children "donate" some teachers!
In this way, Kong Wei began his own public welfare road———— the teaching project, through training, to send professional teachers of music and body beauty to rural schools, and to shape colorful classrooms for rural children. Kong Weihe's team launched the "Hundred Schools Plan", based on Guizhou to radiate 100 rural schools to the whole country, and 34 schools will be built this year. In order to attract better teachers to rural schools, they also advocate that college students who go out from the local area return to their hometowns to teach local children, "they can get a fairly good salary, and they can take care of their own small families and take care of the school", Kong Wei said. In this way, Kong Wei and his team made the impossibility of rural teachers possible, and it took seven years to do it.
Every step on the road of public welfare is the footprint of love from all walks of life
In the interview, Kong Wei excitedly told reporters that just ten minutes ago, she just saw that the number of public platforms that raised funds has reached 970,000, "In the past, breaking a million would be a bit virtual, because most of them were the support of my friends around me, but this time of 970,000, my friends' donations may only be more than 100,000 and 200,000, and all the others are the love of the public." Speaking of this, Kong Wei was in tears of excitement.
It is not difficult to do public welfare, but it is not easy to adhere to this road for seven years. Recalling the road of public welfare over the years, Kong Wei can tell countless touching stories and countless touching moments. Kong Wei set up a dream public welfare fund, the most difficult time Kong Wei only had 100,000 yuan left on his own account, but she took out 80,000 yuan to subsidize the project funds, and like her, there are many friends around her who do their best to give their own love.
A few years ago, one of the big brothers in the public welfare circle got seriously ill, because he was a public welfare person, Kong Wei and people in the public welfare circle launched a fundraising for him, "At that time, I had a friend who was also an actor, and he was not hot in those years, and he couldn't make much money, but he called me and said that he wanted to donate 200,000", Kong Wei was very touched at the time, but he knew that his friend himself was not rich, so he told the other party "Everyone collects firewood and flames high, you donate 100,000, keep half of it yourself", after all, those years have been obscure, there is no drama, and not much money is earned. The friend agreed, and told Kong Wei that when your public welfare project is needed, I will donate the 100,000 yuan to your project.
Kong Wei is also a real person, a few years later, for the public welfare project she really called the friend, the friend said "I have not filmed for half a year", at that time Kong Wei felt particularly embarrassed, very remorseful, "the actor is actually not as beautiful as everyone imagined", but in the end the friend still insisted on donating 20,000 yuan to Kong Wei's public welfare project.
"People often say, aren't you stars? How do celebrities still want to collect donations from us, in fact, it is really not so, we hope to advocate more people to pay attention to, participate, public welfare can actually be very simple, you can not donate money, but you can give each other a lot of strength. ”
In the eyes of many people, Kong Wei's road to public welfare is very difficult, but in her view, this road is unimpeded because of the support of family, friends and all walks of life.
Two years ago, Kong Wei took more than two dozen children to Zhuhai to give a speech, not to raise money, but to let more people know about their public welfare projects. "On that day, there were two Guizhou compatriots sitting in the audience, each of whom donated 500,000 yuan on the spot", Kong Wei still remembers the scene at that time, but in fact, sometimes it is not just a donation, a small act of kindness, which is not a small force for a public welfare project.
"On the day I took the kids in the hotel, I said buy them each an ice cream ball, you know the price of ice cream in the hotel will be higher, our team's teacher Kong said, will that ball be small? I said call the hotel and tell what we're here to do and ask if they can dig bigger. What Kong Wei did not expect was that when the ice cream ball arrived, the lead teacher told her with happy tears, "The hotel knows their good deeds and digs an extra ball in each bowl", "Do you know how important this little thing is to us, it is actually just an ice cream ball, but it is really touching for us, so that I will cry every time I talk about it." Recalling the scene at that time, Kong Wei choked up a little, and she could no longer control herself throughout the interview, and she shed tears...
Public welfare and love are also a kind of inheritance and transmission
Kong Wei grew up in a happy family, in her impression, the mother has always been a warm-hearted, when she was a child, the neighbors' children would come to their house every day, and the mother cooked for the children to eat, "When I was young, my mother took me to buy vegetables, as long as she saw the vegetable seller with the child, she would definitely go to buy his family's dishes, she said that this would allow him to take the child home earlier." Kong Wei said that he is now engaged in public welfare undertakings, more or less affected by some mothers.
The world is sometimes very delicate, and the mother's love affects Kong Wei, and what Kong Wei does affects her own children. Many people familiar with Kong Wei know that she has a cute and sensible son, when the child was just over seven years old, the school raised money for a leukemia child, "My son thought of a way, sell books to raise funds, he also went to find the principal himself, and then went to persuade other children." On that occasion, Kong Wei's son raised more than 3,000 donations, and even the mother of a classmate joked, "I gave my son 100 yuan to charge her meal card, and he donated it." ”
In fact, in education, Kong Wei did not tell his son how to do it, all of which stemmed from hearing about it from childhood. As early as when the child was more than 3 years old, Kong Wei took him to Guizhou, and the son also knew what the public welfare undertakings his mother was doing were.
On Children's Day the previous year, Kong Wei and the team did an activity to hold up the sky for the children to no longer be wronged, and her son also came to the scene of the activity. "This is an activity that my mother does!" The son stood there excitedly and told every classmate and parent present. In order to let more people join the big family of public welfare, Kong Wei went to many places to speak, once when preparing the speech, the son also picked up the manuscript and read it, "These left-behind children, means that they can't see their parents several times a year", the son suddenly said to Kong Wei, "Mom, their mother really doesn't love them", every time at this time, Kong Wei will always patiently tell the child, "You have been to Guizhou, you see many places have green plants, but some places only have mountain cliffs, farmers have no land to plant, they have babies, If you want to make your baby's life better, you can only go out and earn money to keep your baby at home and let them receive a better education, but they must love their baby very much. ”
Red is not red has nothing to do with public welfare
But because I did public welfare, I don't complain
After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy, Kong Wei starred in the film directed by Jiang Wen as the heroine, appeared at the Venice Film Festival, she is also the first North Film student recruited by the Institute of Human Arts in 50 years, on the road of acting, Kong Wei's starting point is really high. However, when the classmates around her, Huang Xiaoming and Chen Kun, became popular, Kong Wei's name rarely appeared in the position of the heroine in film and television drama works, and her acting skills were often recognized, but her popularity could not be compared with several classmates.
Kong Wei never shy away from the fact that she is "not red", and she often says that "I did not do public welfare because I could not continue to mix in the entertainment industry." In the eyes of many people, Kong Wei has delayed his own deductive future because of public welfare, but Kong Wei's mentality is very good, she frankly said that she will not be great enough to give up one of her life's favorite jobs in order to do public welfare, "I didn't think so much at the beginning, if I thought so much, I wouldn't do it, there were indeed two or three years, for the sake of public welfare, a play was not filmed, but at that time when I looked back and wanted to act again, I'm sorry, there was no drama, everyone may have forgotten you." ”
Speaking of this, Kong Wei's eyes also carried a bit of loss. Don't regret it? In the past 17 years, Convey has answered this question dozens or hundreds of times, "Regret, does not exist, just like some people say that you have worked hard for ten years and finally became famous in Venice, why did you suddenly get married." I am a person who is at ease with the encounter, my college classmates are very hot, of course I will have regrets in my heart, but the more things I experience, the more I understand that their coming out on top is actually because they have paid enough, I have not done a good job of not blaming anything else, blaming myself for paying too little. ”
Kong Wei said that she never thought that public welfare hindered her acting path, "Maybe I still don't have red without public welfare, so what will I do?" There are complaints, there are resentments, but at the moment I am satisfied. Today, Kong Wei is still active on the drama stage, challenging various roles that have not been tried in the past, and she also admits that she is still willing to return to the film and television circle, hoping to play wonderful roles in film and television dramas.
Facing the reporter, Kong Wei looked up and recalled the past, she smiled and said, "If someone had told me that I would face so many problems on the road of public welfare, I might really think about it, because at that time I was really enthusiastic, but in the present, this is already a responsibility for me." (Text/Yang Guang)
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